Practice golf ball for home use



Fld Aug. 18. 1924 S KNIGHT lPRACTICE GOLF BALL FOR HOME USE Aug. 4, `1925.

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Patented Aug. 4, 1925.

UNITED STATES SYBIL KNIGHT, v0F TOORA, SOUTH GIPPSLAND, VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA.

PRACTICE GOLF BALL FOR HOME USE.

Application filed `August 18, 1924. Serial No. 732,877. `"1.3.

invented new and useful Improvements in Practice Golf Balls for Home Use, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved practice golfsball, such as will be found useful both by experienced players and by beginners for the home practice of golf strokes including the half-swing, the three-quarter swing and the full swing strokes.

It is anobject of the invention to provide a practice golf-ball for home use, which is resilient and sufficiently soft to prevent damage by breakages when used indoors or in the vicinity of a residence, but withal possesses sutlicient weight to permit golf strokes to be practiced and correctly played. This object is achieved by constructing a ball from strands of woollen yarn or like soft material of equal length and arranged in bundle formation. These strands are tightly clasped together at or about a central point by means of an approved fastener having requisite weight, and the Vends of the strands are spread outwardly into a ball with said fastener as its axis.

Referring to the drawings Figure 1 is a cross'sectional view of a practice golf-ball according to the invention.

Fi ure 2 is a cross-sectional view taken on line A of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a detail view of a fastener for the woollen strands.

Figure 4 is a perspective view showing one method of and means for manufacturing practice golf-balls according to the invention.

Figure 5 is a view illustrating an alternative method of and means for manufacturing the balls.

A practice golf-ball for home use according to the invention consists of a multiplicity of strands 2 of woollen yarn or like soft material, which are of equal length and are arranged in bundle formation. These strands 2Yare tightly clasped together at or about a central point by means of a fastener 3, which preferably consists of a piece of metal wire having itsends flattened and soldered together as is indicated at 4. The loose ends of the strands 2 are spread outwardly into ball formation as is shown in Figure l of the drawings, whereby they completely surround the fastener 3 and entirely conceal it from view. The strands 2 being of soft and yieldable material prevent the golf-ball from causing any damage by breakage when being used indoors or in the vicinity of a residence, while the fastener 3 in addition to tightly clasping the strands 3 together serves to impart sufcient weight to the ball to enable golf strokes to be practiced and correctly played. The practice ball, moreover, is resilient and will bounce when forcibly projected against any hard object.

According to one method of manufacturing the improved practice golf-balls, there is provided a wooden base 5, upon which are mounted two vertical rods 6. A required length of woollen yarn or other suitable soft material is wound around the rods 6 as is shown in Figure 3, and the fastener 3 is then fitted around the central portion of the wound yarn and securely fastened, such as by soldering together its ends, to firmly clasp together the coils of yarn. The coiled yarn is then removed from the vertical rods 6, and the looped portions -at both ends of the coils are evenly severed by a sharp tool. The severed ends are then spread outwardly to form a ball as previously described with the fastener 3, as its axis and completely hidden from view.

According to another method of manufacture illustrated by Figure 5 of the drawings, a wooden base 7 of longer dimensions than that of the base 5 is employed, and the vertical rods 6, around which the yarn is wound, are spaced at a greater distance apart. Fasteners 3 are then fitted at measured intervals along the wound yarn, and the coils of yarn are then severed into desired lengths at points midway between the fasteners 3, when the severed ends are spread outwardly in ball format-ion as previouslyv described, to completely surround the fasteners 3.

According to another method, the strands of yarn are initially cut to required length. when they are compressed together and forced while under pressure through the annular fastener, which need not necessarily i be split.

1. A practice golf-ball consisting of a multiplicity of strands of soft material such as woollen yarn arranged in bundle formation and firmly clasped together at a point intermediate; of their ends by a fastener and havingl their ends spread outwardly to form a bail with said fastener as its axis,-sub stantially as described.V Y

2. A practice golf-bailV according to claim l, wherein the fastener forming the axis of the bail consists of a ring, substantially as described.

3. A practice golf-ball according to claim 10 l, wherein the. fastener formingfthe axis of the bali consists of a metal wire having its ends flattened and fastened together, sub- SYBIL KNIGHT.

Witnesses J AMES V. MGEACHARN, IAN MCEACHARN; 

